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May 7, 2012
05/12
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Gustave Le Bon
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This brilliant and well-illustrated 1892 work by Doctor Gustave Le Bon constitutes the greatest 19th Century study on how races and peoples transform their civilization and arts. Some of Le Bon's most important findings are: 1) "Of all the factors which preside over the adoption and evolution of the fundamental elements of a civilization, the most important one is race;" 2) "When a people belonging to a very superior race is in contact with a people of a very inferior race, the...
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Topics: Gustave Le Bon, Robert K. Stevenson, Vishnu, Siva, Mohammed, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton,...
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Aug 26, 2013
08/13
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Saulcy, Félicien de, 1807-1880; Société française de numismatique
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Topics: Numismatics, Seleucids
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Feb 13, 2009
02/09
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Houtsma, M. Th. (Martijn Theodoor), 1851-1943; 'Imad al-dn Muammad ibn Muammad al-Ktib al-Isbahni. Histoire des Seldjoucides ..; Muammad Ibrhm, historian. Histoire des Seljoucides; Yaa, Nsr ul-Dn, called Ibn ul-Bb. Histoire des Seldjoucides ..
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v. 1. Histoire des Seljoucides du Kerman par Muhammad Ibrahîm, texte persan.- v. 2. Histoire des Seldjoucides de l'Irâq, par al-Bondari, d'après Imâd ad-din al-Katib al-Isfahâní, texte arabe.- v. 3. Histoire des Seldjoucides d'Asie Mineure d'après ibn Bb, texte turc.- Vol. 4. Histoire des Seldjoucides d'Asie Mineure d'après l'Abrégé du Seldjouknmeh d'Ibn-Bb, texte persan
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Topic: Seleucids
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Feb 12, 2020
02/20
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McDowell, Robert Harbold, 1894-1980
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xvii, 272 pages 28 cm
Topics: Seleucids, Seals (Numismatics) -- Iraq -- Seleucia on the Tigris (Extinct city), Seals...
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Apr 30, 2013
04/13
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Dandamayeva, Mariam Magomedovna [Дандамаева, Мариам Магомедовна]
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Dandamayeva, Mariam Magomedovna [Дандамаева, Мариам Магомедовна], 1987, “Lettre de l'Uruk des Séleucides (À propos de l'«extinction» de la langue Akkade) [Письмо из селевкидского Урука (К вопросу о «смерти» аккадского языка)]”, Vestnik drevneĭ Istorii [Вестник древней истории], vol. 1987/IV, pp. 132-141, en Russe avec résumé en Français [на русском языке с...
Topics: Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Akkadian, Uruk, Seleucids
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Oct 20, 2009
10/09
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Cyril Toumanoff
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This study by the distinguished Caucasiologist Cyril Toumanoff (1913-1997) appears as part I of Toumanoff's influential Studies in Christian Caucasian History (Georgetown, 1963), pp. 33-144. It traces the history of the lordly (naxarar) system on the Armenian Highlands and in the Caucasus from remote antiquity through the early Christian period. Includes full bibliography. Formats available: searchable bookmarked pdf or zipped HTML files. Prepared by Robert Bedrosian.
Topics: History, Historical, Ancient, Armenian, Armenia, Urartu, Urartian, Hittites, Achaemenids, Iran,...
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May 31, 2010
05/10
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Hagop Manandian (Manandyan)
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This is chapter 2 from H. A. Manandian's important book (Erevan, 1946) The Trade and Cities of Armenia in Relation to Ancient World Trade, English translation by N. G. Garsoian (Lisbon, 1965). "Armenia's Economic Prosperity and the Foundation of Cities in the Hellenistic Period" includes: The Heyday of Hellenism and the Development of Commercial Relations with the East; The Colonizing Activity of the Seleucids in Northern Mesopotamia and Media; The Prosperity of Sophene and the...
Topics: History, Armenia, Armenian, Ancient, Alexander the Great, Hellenistic, Hellenism, Persia, Iran,...
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Oct 9, 2019
10/19
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Otto Stein
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Presentation of all fragments preserved of the Indike or Megasthenes, describing northern Indian by the end of the 3rd cent. BC. Explanations in German. Top in 1931, today somewhat outdated, but still unique in its comprehensiveness.
Topics: megasthenes, ancient India, Seleucids, Pataliputra, classical literature
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Apr 12, 2009
04/09
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Michael Satlow
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A discussion of Alexander's conquest of west Asia and its aftermath (323 - 200 BCE). What is "Hellenism," and how did the Jews react to it?
Topics: Jews, Jewish history, academic, religion, Judaism, Alexander, Hellenism, Ptolemies, Seleucids,...
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Nov 11, 2019
11/19
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Arshak Alpoyachean
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Պատմութիւն Մալաթիոյ Հայոց-01 Patmut'iwn Malat'ioy Hayots' [History of the Armenians of Malatya], by Arshag Alboyajian/Alboyadjian/Arshak Alpoyachean (Beirut, 1961), in 331 pdf pages. A thorough topographical, historical, and ethnographic survey of an important cradle of Armenian culture in Asia Minor, known to the Hittites and later civilizations as Melittu/Melitene. A Wikipedia entry ( Malatya ) describes the city's past and present. The large scan has been split into...
Topics: History, Historical, Armenia, Armenian, Geography, Topography, Ethnography, Asia Minor, Prehistory,...
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Feb 16, 2020
02/20
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D.T. Potts
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Al-Bahrain From the Seleucids to the Earliest Caliphs . Author : D.T. Potts. Publication Date: 1984.
Topics: Bahrain, Seleucids, Caliphs
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Feb 19, 2017
02/17
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Flavius Josephus
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Flavius Josephus on the Maccabees. The download contains Books 12-13 from Antiquities of the Jews, by the Jewish activist and historian Flavius Josephus (A.D. 37- about 100), from the edition of William Whiston (London, 1879). These books describe events from the time of Alexander the Macedonian (4th century B.C.) to about 67 B.C., and especially the rise to prominence of the Hasmonean rulers Judas Maccabaeus (B.C. 166/5-160), Jonathan (160-142), Simon (142/1-135/4), John Hyrcanus I...
Topics: History, Historical, Israel, Judaea, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Seleucids, Hellenism, Greeks,...
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Aug 17, 2016
08/16
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Martinengo, Antonio Francesco
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Topics: Kings and rulers--Succession, Kings and rulers, Seleucids
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Apr 5, 2017
04/17
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Glanville Downey
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A History of Antioch in Syria from Seleucus to the Arab Conquest, by Glanville Downey (Princeton, 1961), in 793 pdf pages. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Sources for the history of Antioch; 3. Antioch and the region in pre-Macedonian times; 4. The foundation of Antioch and the reign of Seleucus I; 5. From Antiochus I to Antiochus IV (B.C. 281-163); 6. The decline of the Seleucid dynasty; 7. Antioch under the Roman Republic; 8. Antioch under the Augustan Empire (31 B.C.-A.D. 69); 9. From the...
Topics: History, Historical, Ancient, Classical, Syria, Syrian, Greek, Greece, Seleucids, Rome, Roman,...
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Mar 20, 2017
03/17
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Ambrosios Galfayean/Ambroise Nar Bey
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Համառօտ պատմութիւն հին ազգաց [Concise History of Ancient Peoples], by Ambrosios Galfayean/Ambroise Nar Bey (Venice, 1849), in 755 pdf pages. History of the Jews, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Greeks, and Seleucids. From the author's series Համառօտ պատմութիւնք հին եւ նոր ազգաց/Hamar'o't patmut'iwnk' hin ew nor azgats' [Concise Histories of Ancient and Modern Peoples]. Book digitized by Google and uploaded...
Topics: History, Historical, Ancient, Levant, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Iran, Greeks, Seleucids, Asia...
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Oct 11, 2009
10/09
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Cyril Toumanoff
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This study by the distinguished Caucasiologist Cyril Toumanoff (1913-1997) appears as part III of his Studies in Christian Caucasian History (Georgetown, 1963), pp. 277-354. An earlier version appeared in the journal Le Museon 72(1959), pp. 1-36 and 73(1960), pp. 73-106. This work traces the origins and history of what is considered the First Monarchy in Armenia--that of the Orontid/Ervandid family--which ruled Sophene, parts of Commagene, and neighboring areas from the 6th century B.C. through...
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Topics: History, Historical, Armenia, Armenian, Caucasus, Achaemenids, Iran, Seleucids, Hellenism, Sophene,...
McGill University Library
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Jun 8, 2018
06/18
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Abdüllâtif Subhî Paşa, 1818-1886
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51, 28 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Topics: Seleucids., Arsacids., Iran -- History -- To 640., McGill University Library Digitized Title,...
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Nov 11, 2019
11/19
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Arshak Alpoyachean
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Պատմութիւն Մալաթիոյ Հայոց-02 Patmut'iwn Malat'ioy Hayots' [History of the Armenians of Malatya], by Arshag Alboyajian/Arshak Alpoyachean (Beirut, 1961), in 382 pdf pages. Part 2 of 4. Sections 3-5: 3. Armenians in Melitene (ancient period to our own times); 4. The Armenian-populated Places of Melitene and the Region; 5. Community Life: Churches, prelacies, monasteries, the Armenian Catholic and Armenian Protestant communities. Compiled by Robert Bedrosian.
Topics: History, Historical, Armenia, Armenian, Topography, Ethnography, Asia Minor, Hittites, Hurrians,...
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Ancient and Medieval Chronological Tables. This is a pdf page with clickable links to tables of importance for ancient and medieval history (ancient times through the 15th century A.D.) at Internet Archive. The tables also appear as attachments to the pdf document. The index is available in pdf or HTML formats (ancient_medieval_chrons.html). Prepared by Robert Bedrosian. Categories: Rulers of Egypt (Partial), Assyria, and Babylonia, Israel, Judah, and Palestine, Judea, Galilee, and Ituraea....
Topics: Chronologies, Chronological Tables, Greece, Hellenistic Dynasties, Ptolemies and Seleucids, Rome,...
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Jun 1, 2010
06/10
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Hagop Manandian (Manandyan)
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This is chapter 3 from H. A. Manandian's important book (Erevan, 1946) The Trade and Cities of Armenia in Relation to Ancient World Trade, English translation by N. G. Garsoian (Lisbon, 1965). "The Development of Trade and Cities in the Reign of Tigran the Second" includes: Favorable Conditions for the Consolidation and Growth of Armenia in the Preceding Period; The Empire of Tigran the Great and Its Social and Political Organization; The Economic Policy of Tigran the Second and the...
Topics: History, Armenia, Armenian, Ancient, Hellenistic, Hellenism, Persia, Iran, Trade, Seleucids,...
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Sep 27, 2019
09/19
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Welles, C. Bradford (Charles Bradford), 1901-1969
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c, 403 p., 12 of plates : 25 cm
Topics: Inscriptions, Greek -- Turkey, Greek letters, Greek language, Hellenistic (300 B.C.-600 A.D.),...
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Dec 25, 2020
12/20
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Multiple authors
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Ancient Arts of Iran: Images, Texts, and Studies, in 155 bookmarked pdf pages. This file contains clickable links to Google Images, Wikipedia, Internet Archive, The Ancient World Online (AWOL), Encyclopaedia Iranica, Sacred-Texts, and the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Also included are studies by art historians Daniel Schlumberger (Parthian Art), Dorothy Shepherd (Sasanian Art), Prudence Harper (Sasanian Silver), and Guitty Azarpay (The Development...
Topics: Art, Architecture, Iran, Persia, Iranian, Persian, Achaemenids, Seleucids, Hellenistic, Parthians,...
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Aug 29, 2020
08/20
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Michael Rostovtzeff
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The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World, by Michael Rostovtzeff (New York, 1941), in 1939 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. The download contains all three volumes of this work, which presents the socio-economic history of the period from the 4th century B.C. to about the 1st century B.C., or, from the death of Alexander the Great, through the rise of Rome. Attached to the document are links to additional resources. Maps of the Hellenistic period from classical atlases also...
Topics: History, Historical, Hellenism, Seleucids, Ptolemies, Asia Minor, Greece, Egypt, Levant, Syria,...
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Apr 19, 2011
04/11
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Foy-Vaillant, Jean, 1632-1706
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Title page vignette, head and tail pieces, decorated initials
Topics: Numismatics, Seleucids, Numismatics -- Syria -- Early works to 1800, Seleucids -- Early works to...
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Jul 6, 2010
07/10
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E. R. Bevan
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This study, which appeared as Chapter 16 in Volume 8 of the Cambridge Ancient History [Rome and the Mediterranean 218-133 B.C.] (Cambridge, 1930), was written by the distinguished classicist E. R. Bevan. Chapter 16 "Syria and the Jews" includes: 1. Syria under Seleucus IV; 2. Antiochus Epiphanes; 3. The Jewish Factions; 4. The Egyptian War and the Maccabaean Revolt; 5. The Book of Daniel; 6. Antiochus in the East. The Hasmonaeans; 7. Demetrius Soter; 8. Alexander Balas and Egypt; 9....
Topics: History, Ancient, Israel, Syria, Jews, Judaism, Egypt, Seleucids, Greek, Greece, Hellenism, Iran,...
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Պատմութիւն Մակաբայեցւոց [History of the Maccabees]. This download contains the Classical Armenian texts of First, Second, and Third Maccabees, from the Zohrab Bible (Venice, 1805) in its revised edition, edited by the great philologist Tigran A. Aivazian (Erevan, 2016), pp. 293-337, in 46 pdf pages. An attachment to the document is a searchable English translation from the corresponding sections of The Five Books of Maccabees, by Henry Cotton (Oxford, 1832). Both parts...
Topics: Bible, Old Testament, Classical Armenian, Grabar, Israel, Judaea, Seleucids, Revolts, Translated...
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Jan 9, 2021
01/21
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Elias Bickerman
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Chronological Tables, by Elias Bickerman. Tables 5-10 from Bickerman's Chronology of the Ancient World (New York, 1982), pp. 126-218, in 95 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. Compiled by Robert Bedrosian. Internet Archive also has earlier chapters and Tables 1-4 from this book. Contents: Table 5 Lists of Rulers Kings of Sparta Kings of Macedon Kings of Babylon Kings of Persia Kings of Egypt (26th-30th dynasties) The Ptolemies Alexander the Great, his successors, and the Seleucids The...
Topics: History, Historical, Chronological Tables, Chronologies, Ancient, Classical, Greece, Greek,...
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Jun 30, 2020
06/20
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A.H.M. Jones
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The Greek City from Alexander to Justinian, by A.H.M. Jones (Oxford, 1940), in 399 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. From the book jacket: "One of the finest works by a great historian of late antiquity, this book tackles a tremendous span of time [about a thousand years]--from Alexander to the Late Empire--and covers a huge geographical area. 'Greek city' here means any community organized on the Greek model and using Greek for the official language. Jones first describes the...
Topics: History, Historical, Cities, Origins, Development, Ancient, Hellenistic, Greek, Greece, Asia Minor,...
University of Toronto - Robarts Library
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Feb 13, 2009
02/09
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Houtsma, M. Th. (Martijn Theodoor), 1851-1943; 'Imad al-dn Muammad ibn Muammad al-Ktib al-Isbahni. Histoire des Seldjoucides ..; Muammad Ibrhm, historian. Histoire des Seljoucides; Yaa, Nsr ul-Dn, called Ibn ul-Bb. Histoire des Seldjoucides ..
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v. 1. Histoire des Seljoucides du Kerman par Muhammad Ibrahîm, texte persan.- v. 2. Histoire des Seldjoucides de l'Irâq, par al-Bondari, d'après Imâd ad-din al-Katib al-Isfahâní, texte arabe.- v. 3. Histoire des Seldjoucides d'Asie Mineure d'après ibn Bb, texte turc.- Vol. 4. Histoire des Seldjoucides d'Asie Mineure d'après l'Abrégé du Seldjouknmeh d'Ibn-Bb, texte persan
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Topic: Seleucids
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Nov 28, 2020
11/20
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C. Bradford Welles
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Royal Correspondence in the Hellenistic Period, by C. Bradford Welles (London, 1934), in 506 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. Greek texts, English translations, and scholarly notes for an invaluable collection of 75 letters preserved in Greek inscriptions between kings, officials, priests, and others, dating from about 311 B.C. to 21 A.D. Attached to the document are links to additional resources. Scanned by Robert Bedrosian.
Topics: History, Historical, Hellenistic, Hellenism, Greece, Greek, Macedonia, Asia Minor, Seleucids,...
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Sep 4, 2019
09/19
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Fischer, Thomas, 1944-
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xiii, 252 p., [13] folded leaves of plates : 23 cm
Topics: Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D, Maccabees, Seleucids
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Dec 25, 2020
12/20
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PrinceofMacedon
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Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OtQOrxFE5o Video created by PrinceofMacedon . Rights to the gameplay footage belongs to Sega. Please watch in "High Quality." I lead the Parthians into battle. Msrtampa takes command of the Seleucids. Map: Libyan Plains (with Eastern Village)
Topics: Rome Total War, Online Battle, Parthia vs Seleucids, Multiplayer, Gaming, YouTube
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Jun 7, 2019
06/19
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Ehling, Kay
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306 pages : 25 cm
Topics: Seleukiden, Seleucids -- History, Seleucids, Syria -- History -- 333 B.C.-634 A.D, Syria,...
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Dec 3, 2010
12/10
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W. W. Tarn
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This study, which appeared in the Journal of Hellenic Studies 22(1902) pp. 268-293 was written by the great historian W. W. Tarn. Based on classical sources the author considers aspects of Graceo-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian culture. Topics include: the founding of cities, the intermarriage of populations, the Menander legend, coinage, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Parthia, the Kushans, language, architecture, sculpture, and trade. Extensive and invaluable scholarly notes. 28 pdf pages. Book...
Topics: History, Historical, Ancient, Greek, Greece, Hellenism, Seleucids, India, Indian, Bactria,...
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Jun 5, 2020
06/20
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Robert H. Hewsen
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Maps of Historical Armenia (Prehistory-2nd Century A.D.), by Robert H. Hewsen, in 44 searchable and bookmarked pdf pages. The download contains pp. 20-42 from Hewsen's Armenia: A Historical Atlas (Chicago, 2001), text about the earliest civilizations known from the territory of historical Armenia: the Nairi states (13th-9th centuries B.C.), the kingdom of Biainili (Urartu) (9th-6th centuries B.C.), Achaemenid "Armina" (550-330 B.C.), Orontid (Ervanduni) Armenia (4th-3rd centuries...
Topics: Maps, Cartography, History, Historical, Remote, Ancient, Asia Minor, Armenia, Armenian, Caucasus,...
London : Davy & Sons
Topics: Syrian coins, Seleucids
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Jan 4, 2021
01/21
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Elias Bickerman
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"The Seleucids and the Achaemenids," by Elias Bickerman, from La Persia e il mondo Greco-Romano, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 76, Rome, 1966, pp. 87-117, in 32 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. "...the author emphasizes the distinction between Iran proper and outer Iran and the fact that the anti-Seleucid rebellions in outer Iran were organized by Hellenes. He describes the situation of the natives under the Seleucid rule, the importance of the northern frontier which...
Topics: History, Historical, Iran, Persia, Iranian, Persian, Ancient, Alexander the Great, Hellenistic,...
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Topics: Seleucids, Turkey -- History, Iran -- History, Greece -- History
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Dec 23, 2020
12/20
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Marie-Louise Chaumont
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Quelques études de Marie-Louise Chaumont sur l'Iran ancien et l'Arménie, in 454 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. M.-L. Chaumont, distinguished French Iranist and Armenist, published the 18 studies in this download in a variety of journals between the years 1958 and 1993. The document also has links to her entries at Encyclopaedia Iranica . Compiled by Robert Bedrosian. Contents: "Le culte d'Anāhitā a Staxr et les premiers Sassanides," from Revue de l'histoire des religions,...
Topics: History, Historical, Iran, Iranian, Persia, Persian, Armenia, Armenian, Religion, Beliefs, Gods,...
